We are having weather which is more usual to April, in March; it has been so warm and pleasant, it feels like a great gift. Everyone is in a good mood. On my way down here my neighbors were sitting on deck chairs on their lawn – and raised their hands to me in complacent […]
Category Archives: Life in the Catskills
More Superlative Weather.
20-Mar-10Slow snow melt.
19-Mar-10As I came up here I saw one thing which told me almost everything I needed to know about conditions on the ground in the Catskills: I passed the Neversink Reservoir and saw that it was not yet overflowing. That meant the river was not flooding, which meant the snow had not melted yet. That […]
The Neversink.
13-Mar-10March weather in the Catskills. Come quickly, spring!
Jayber Crow in the flesh.
03-Mar-10Took me by surprise. In the neighboring hamlet of Grahamsville, New York: Proof, I suppose, that Wendell Berry writes plausibly of rural America. And this, of course, is a thousand miles away from Jayber Crow‘s home of “Port William.”
Power.
02-Mar-10On in the valley, at least as far as the fire station.
Snowmageddon Fallout.
02-Mar-10There’s still no power here in the valley, a week after the snow began. Official totals (as I hear through the grapevine, which certainly doesn’t decrease the total) for the upper elevations in this area for last week was 55 inches. This is believable. It has been compressing impressively; in front of my house, my […]
March Begins.
02-Mar-10Dawn from the cabin. The month of melting begins.
Astonishing Snowfall.
27-Feb-10I couldn’t tell you how much snow has fallen here in the past week. Tuesday I shoveled more than a foot of fresh snow off my porch; from Thursday to Saturday I shoveled four times, 12 inches, 12 inches, 14 inches, and 5 inches. There was already about a foot on the ground. But the […]
Winter and Rough Weather.
23-Feb-10Wow. It just keeps snowing here. It’s been snowing all day, wet snow, blizzard conditions, the whole thing. At least eight inches, but who knows how much there really is, and no sign of stopping either. I was planning on heading to the library today for some intellectual nourishment, but that has been postponed. I […]
Uncle John’s Cabin.
17-Feb-10February at the cabin. Every bit as cold as it looks.